I noticed a crackling whiny sound coming from the 240W brick as soon as the Laptop is plugged in.
I am just wondering if anyone else is hearing those charger voices?
Does the coil whine stop as soon as you start the laptop?
No, but whats the worst that could happen?
Just some noisy coils i guess
I was thinking some power adapters emit slightly more noise when unloaded.
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Yeah, i was just wondering if someone else noticed anything like that. 
Same here … A lot of coil whine as soon as I plug it, and sound as soon I unplug it. It’s weild and painfu … event my coworkers are annoyed …
Thank you
i thought i am crazy for beeing the only one XD
Mine doesn’t seem to make any noise. I did however notice that there was a wine coming from the inside of my laptop once while I had the midplate removed, but that only happened once.
I just received my batch 11 one a few weeks ago and I’m experiencing this as well. I’m used to some coil whine when I put my ears close to a laptop but this scratching-like sound is so loud that it’s distracting, even in a room with another fan running. It happens both when I’m using the official 240W charger and also plugged into a CalDigit dock.
On further testing, it seems to only be occurring during network activity and the location of the scratching sound seems to be emanating right from where the WiFi module sits in the chassis (regardless of which side I plug power into). Is it possible that my WiFi card is actually the component with cool whine? I haven’t encountered this before.
If I can’t resolve this I think I’m going to have to return the machine. I can look past some other annoyances but man is this sound grating.
If you take the wifi out and replicate the load, or disable wifi, does the coil wine go away?
I actually think I was wrong. After unplugging and plugging the machine back into power I’m actually hearing the sound even with WiFi turned off. It’s corresponding to mouse movements on my screen and jumps in volume if I toggle on performance mode (using latest Fedora Workstation). Seems like it’s not the WiFi module. Is there anything I can do here? I know it’s generally an aesthetic issue, but I actually have gotten complaints from people around me in my quiet office space. I’d really love to keep the machine because otherwise it’s great.
I can’t comment on linux installs, but sometimes I’ve had massive coil whine occur if a display driver installed buggy or if I accidentally disabled one in windows. The increase when changing performance modes seems similar, especially being tied to mouse movement.
Have you tried reinstalling the drivers for the AMD igpu, and maybe also the dGPU if you have one?
That’s useful information to have, thanks! I think you might be right. It does seem to increase in volume when I add the dGPU, though it’s present both with and without it.
As far as drivers go, I believe Fedora is pretty up-to-date on AMD drivers and so I don’t think I can update them.
After trying out a few more things I’ve decided to initiate a return, since I’m still in the return window. It’s a shame because I actually quite like the machine otherwise.
Did you return it and is the new any better?
I just noticed a similar sound from my charger, which is plugged in directly to the RTX expansion’s USB port. It kind of sounds something between crackling soda and a Geiger counter. I’ve never heard anything quite like that from any power supply before. My guess is it’s caused by the regulator coils when the regulator adapts to rapidly changing load, i.e. the PC taking suddenly more current and then less again. The actual frequencies at which these switch mode regulators work are typically much too high to hear, but a sudden change in the switching duty cycle might produce an audible click and if there are lots of those happening randomly, it would sound just like a Geiger counter.